I've taken the German text of this important document from the website
of the church where it was formulated, adopted and proclaimed: www.markusgemeinde-stuttgart.de
and made a rough translation. See below for that site's historical
background about the document.

After the collapse
of National Socialist rule and the situation of starting completely anew
at the end of war, in Treysa (Hessen) in August 1945 at a church meeting
it was decided to make a new beginning by creating a union called the "Protestant
Church in Germany". The Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt from October
1945 made further progress towards this goal possible. It sought to address
unresolved questions of the immediate past and make admission to the world-wide
Oekumene possible.

"The Council of the Protestant Church in Germany welcomes representatives
of the Ecumenical Council of Churches at its meeting in Stuttgart on 18.-19.
October 1945.

We are all the more grateful for this visit, as we not only know that
we are with our people in a large community of suffering, but also in
a solidarity of guilt.

With great pain we say: By us infinite wrong was brought over many peoples
and countries. That which we often testified to in our communities, we
express now in the name of the whole Church: We did fight for long years
in the name of Jesus Christ against the mentality that found its awful
expression in the National Socialist regime of violence; but we accuse
ourselves for not standing to our beliefs more courageously, for not praying
more faithfully, for not believing more joyously, and for not not loving
more ardently.

Now a new beginning is to be made in our churches. Based on the Holy
Scripture, with complete seriousness directed to the Lord of the Church,
they start to cleanse themselves of the influences of beliefs foreign
to the faith and to reorganize themselves. We hope to the God of grace
and mercy that He will use our churches as His tools and give them license
to proclaim His word and to obtain obedience for His will, amongst ourselves
and among our whole people.

The fact that we, in this new beginning, find ourselves sincerely connected
with the other churches of the ecumenical community fills us with great
joy.

We hope to God that by the common service of the churches the spirit
of violence and revenge, which again today wants to become powerful, will
be directed to the whole world, and that the spirit of peace and love
will come to predominate, in which alone tortured humanity can find healing.

Thus we ask at a time, in which the whole world needs a new beginning:
Veni creator Spiritus! (Come, spiritof the creator!)"

Signatures:

D Worm (Wuerttemburg state bishop)
Asmussen of dd (president of the Church Chancellory of the EKD)
H. Meiser (state bishop Bavaria)
Held (minister in Essen, later Praeses of the Rhine. Church)
Dr. Lilje (Secretary-General of the Lutheran world convention, later state
bishop in Hanover)
Hahn (minister, later Saxony state bishop)
Lic. Drizzle (minister, theology professor)
Smend D.Dr. (theology professor)
Dr. G. Heinemann (attorney, later federal politician and Federal President)
Dibelius (bishop of Berlin-Brandenburg)
Martin Niemoeller D.D. (minister, later church president of Hessen Nassau)

babelfish mostly raw from the translation engine [corrected July 2014]::

On the evening of 17 October 1945 St. Mark's Church became important in the world-wide
church. The Council of
the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD), formed at the end of of 1945 in Treysa, a committee of twelve influential
church leaders and laymen was officially convened for the first time in Stuttgart. Chairman of the Council of the EKD was 76-year-old Theophil
Worm, who enjoyed a high reputation abroad because of his courageous
activism for justice and the duties of the Church during the Third Reich.
The meeting was set to start on Thursday, 18 October 1945, at
9 o'clock; meeting place was the small meeting room of the Wuerttemberg Institute
for the Bible at Hauptstaetter Street 51 B. On the previous evening, to prepare for this first meeting
of the Council of the EKD, in the hall of Furtbach house and in St. Mark's Church two parallel services were held at 9:30pm. The evening celebration of mass in St. Mark's Church was led by national bishop Wurm, the celebration in the Furtbach house
by Prelate Dr. Hartenstein. Additional sermons and/or speaches at these
celebrations were held in addition by Dr. Otto Dibelius, Bishop of
Berlin, and pastor Martin Niemoeller freed from a concentration
camp.

Pastor Niemoeller only arrived in Stuttgart at about 6pm.
When he arrived at the apartment of City Dean Lempp he was informed that he was to speak in St. Mark's Church. His wife selected the
sermon text [Bible passage] for him. Niemoeller held the sermon extemporaneously, moving hearts and consciences in the large audience. His sermon affected them so deeply that on the next day the Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt could
emerge in the center of the Council of the EKD. At the evening service on 17 October
1945 in St. Mark's Church the representatives of the Protestant Church in Germany met for the first time after the Second World
War with representatives
of the churches of the Oekumene. On the German side this meeting had neither been planned nor prepared. The impulse came from the Oekumene. That their
step now, however, led immediately to a clear word of the reversal, to the Stuttgart
Declaration of Guilt--this was a fruit of that evening in St. Mark's Church.
That was, church-historically seen, the greatest hour in our St. Mark's Church.
The director of the ecumenical delegation, Dr. Willem A.
Visser't Hooft writes in his autobiography: "How should we achieve the resumption
of full oekumenischer relations? The obstacles for a new community could
only be eliminated if the German side found a clear word. Pierre Maury
finally advised us to say to the Germans: 'we came to to ask you that you help us to help you.' When we arrived in heavily destroyed
Stuttgart, we heard that in the evening a special service
would take place in St. Mark's, in which Bishop Wurm, Pastor Niemoeller and
Bishop Dibelius would speak. Niemoeller preached about Jeremiah 14,
7-11: 'Although our sins testify against us o Lord, do something for the sake of your name!' It was a powerful sermon. Niemoeller said, it is not
enough to give the Nazis responsibility, it is also necessary for the Church to admit
its responsibility."

How effective that evening sermon by pastor Niemoeller was, is
also evident in a report of the Stuttgart Newspaper on 20 October
1945. Therein it says among other things: "doing nothing,
saying nothing, not feeling responsible, that is the guilt/fault of the Christianity."

As a result of this evening service the Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt emerged. It was given to the representatives
of the Oekumene on the morning of the 19.Oktober 1945. Scene of the delivery was (probably)
the house Eugen Street 22, which at that time served as the Stift Church community. The claim that the Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt was handed over
to the comunity in the Markuskirche, before the eyes and ears of the pastorage, is
a legend.

The church leadership did not immediately disseminate the Declaration of Guilt to all
communities in the country, to read it from all pulpits.
Only gradually and late did it enter into the consciousness of the communities.
In St. Mark's Church there is a memorial plaque with the full wording of Stuttgart
Confession of Guilt of 19 October 1945.